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Scraped/dictated into Arcturus I don’t read enough blogs these days, and so I’m really happy to have come across by chance an article written by Richard Poynder: http://poynder.blogspot.com/2010/08/university-of-ottawa-press-launches-oa.html In this he analyses the important differences between the types of language … Continue reading →

Typed/Scraped/dictated into Arcturus On one of the great things about working in an open environment is that you can keep a complete record of everything you’ve done immediately. In the Open Knowledge Foundation we use a tool called Ether Pad … Continue reading →

Dictated into Arcturus I have just been at #scifoo – a remarkable annual gathering created and run by Google (Larry Page), Nature (Timo Hannay) , and O’Reilly (Tim O’Reilly). I have been privileged to have been invited three times and … Continue reading →

Typed/Scraped into Arcturus Useful constructive feedback on my strawman PP4 for where scientific data should be stored: Kenji Takeda says: August 2, 2010 at 9:39 pm  (Edit) Dear Peter,Great discussion you have opened up! I believe that you are right, domain … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus If you’re going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. I have been at #scifoo (more later, hopefully much more) and have met Fabiana Kubke, an ardent contributor to OKF. She has … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus Rapid update for #solo2010. What’s emerged from talking with Jean-Claude Bradley, Mat Todd, Cameron Neylon and others doing Open Science / Chemistry is that we are going to do an open experiment starting now and in full … Continue reading →

Dictated into Arcturus This post is a first outline – not even a draft – of a proposed Panton Paper on “Semantic Open Scientific Data” The vision of the Semantic Web 2.0 (If I’ve not lost count) includes Linked Open … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus Current state of play for Panton Papers. My contribution to the Panel on Open Access and Open Data this afternoon at #oss2010. I have been releasing a new Panton Paper pre-draft every 1-2 days. These are nuclei … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus I’ve been invited (and accepted) to talk at Science Online 2010 (#solo2010). In previous years this was called “Science Blogging” and I’m currently wearing the T-shirt from one such. And they were held in the Royal Institution … Continue reading →

Typed and edited into Arcturus Sitting in the Free Speech Movement Cafe in Berkeley (see picture) it’s impossible not to get the sense of cataclysmic change. It’s doubly nostalgic in that it was followed a few years later by a … Continue reading →